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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien’s legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.
Like, what do you mean you don’t have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS
This man right here gets it.
Yep, Tolkien’s linguistic puns and translation jokes are legendary. Although it’s not accurate to say the in-universe origin of the books is that an elf told the stories to Tolkien. Rather, Tolkien is translating them from a volume he found, written in Westron, called the Red Book of Westmarch. This contains Bilbo’s book (The Hobbit), Frodo and Sam’s additions to it, (LoTR), as well as Bilbo’s translations of Elvish histories he encountered during his time in Rivendell (The Silmarillion). These were all in one volume and Tolkien himself made the editorial decision to publish them all separately. Even more fascinating, the Red Book is not even the original writings, which of course would have been lost by now to time and disintegration. It’s actually a copy of the original, or probably a copy of a copy, multiple times removed. And it wasn’t copied from the original, either, but from a copy that made it to Gondor where it was annotated and corrected. There’s probably even more to its history that I’m forgetting, but yeah, even this kind of metatextual provenance was something Tolkien thought a lot about that very few writers even consider anymore. Which, of course, they’re not obligated to; but the fact that Tolkien was even interested in that kind of thing just shows how above and beyond he went
Professors will do literally anything other than grade your exams (valid)
More of Rumi who was raised to be a hunter and Kpop idol having no idea how the world works. She thinks garbage collection works like plumbing in that it all gets transported in a big pipe. The concept of a studio apartment is something that has never occurred to her because she’s never stayed in a living space with less than four bedrooms. Mira may have never been to a grocery store but Rumi is completely unaware that grocery stores exist.
{ID - comic of two people interacting at a library. a young man puts his hand on a book as he says, “Actually if you have your license I can look you up that way to check this out for you.” He looks down at the customer’s license and notices that his name is Leon.
“Oh hey we have the same name haha” he points out.
The older Leon laughs, “Oh! Not a common name we’ve got.” The younger Leon hands over the book as he smiles, “Haha, yeah. I don’t think I even know any other Leons.”
Older Leon looks triumphant, “Not a common name, but a good one.”
Younger Leon smiles, “Yeah.” He thinks back on his transition, from a 7 year old with a ponytail, to a long haired braces wearing kid at age 13, then with short hair at age 20, recovering from top surgery at 25, and smiling contentedly with his shirt off and slight facial hair at 26. To the very right is a phone with a text that reads, “How about Leon?”
He speaks again, “I think so too.”
END ID}
Older Leon looks
triumphant, “Not a common
name, but a good one.”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
you may have found this before, although i didn’t see anyone mention it in the notes, but a glossary of haunting by eve tuck and c. ree is available for free, a piece by two indigenous scholars about american horror and colonization. i have come back to it frequently since the first time i read it.
Just saw the word “underfed” written down and spent a good ten seconds trying to imagine what the state of being “derfed” could possibly be, and how one would go about undoing it, before it clicked.
“WW1 soldiers were underfed” fuck man… Not only they sent them off to a war, but then they took their derf away too?? Fucked up
